By Hannah Furness for The Telegraph, 17 October 2015
He was master of the pithy put down, the romantic sonnet and the dramatic plot twists to capture the public imagination for the last 450 years.
But his talents did not end there.
For Shakespeare, widely acknowledged the greatest playwright in the history of the English language, was also an expert amateur botanist, with his deep knowledge of homegrown and exotic plants shining through his works, an expert has said.
The playwright not only spent time in the fields around his Stratford-upon-Avon home, she said, but also shows evidence of studying the latest botanical texts in his spare time in London.
Margaret Willes, a writer who specialises in gardens, has now identified 49 of the specific flowers, vegetables, fruit and herbs used in Shakespeare’s plays, pointing out the in-depth knowledge he must have had.
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